Run the following command:
Get-ADUser <username> -properties MemberOf | select MemberOf | Format-List *
results in something like
MemberOf : {CN=XXX,OU=xxx,OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=com, CN=XXX,OU=xxx,OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=com,CN=XXX,OU=xxx,OU=xxx,DC=xxx,DC=com,...}
I do not want to see "..." I actually want to see all the items.
Use Select-Object's -ExpandProperty switch:
Get-ADUser <username> -Properties MemberOf | select -ExpandProperty MemberOf
When you use Select-Object to filter for certain properties, it returns a PSCustomObject containing the specified properties of the object selected (or an array of PSCustomObjects, if multiple objects are selected). With -ExpandProperty, which may be used with only a single property, for each object selected it returns the object contained in the specified property.
So, with | select MemberOf, what's being returned is a PSCustomObject whose sole property is the MemberOf property of the ADUser object returned by Get-ADUser, displayed in list format (in the same style as it would display the results if you were listing multiple properties of the object).
With | select -ExpandProperty MemberOf, what's being returned is the ADPropertyCollection object which is contained in the MemberOf property (a collection of strings representing the DNs of the members), and that's the object that's displayed in list format.
BTW, I removed the | Format-List * because it's superfluous in this case.
Adi Inbar is correct. Let me expand on this by saying if you're having issues, often get-member is very useful for figuring out what is going on.
PS C:\> ipmo ActiveDirectory
PS C:\> Get-ADUser testuser42 | select memberof | gm
TypeName: Selected.Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADUser
Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Equals Method bool Equals(System.Object obj)
GetHashCode Method int GetHashCode()
GetType Method type GetType()
ToString Method string ToString()
memberof NoteProperty Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADPropertyValueCollection memberof=Microsoft.ActiveDir...
Related
I am trying to filter the values of a property in Active Directory.
I tried:
Get-ADUser -filter * -Properties physicalDeliveryOfficeName | Where-Object (($_.physicalDeliveryOfficeName -like "NICE")) | Select-Object physicalDeliveryOfficeName, name
Get-ADUser -filter * -Properties physicalDeliveryOfficeName | Select-Object physicalDeliveryOfficeName, name | Where-Object (($_.physicalDeliveryOfficeName -like "NICE"))
I did not get any errors, but no results either.
I searched all users with physicaldeliverofficename is (myvalue). I would like to display name and office.
You have a syntax problem:
The Where-Object's (positionally implied) -FilterScript parameter expects a script block argument - { ... } - not a parenthesized expression ((...)).[1]
Therefore:
# Note the { ... } around the expression passed to Where-Object
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties physicalDeliveryOfficeName |
Where-Object { $_.physicalDeliveryOfficeName -eq "NICE" } # | ...
Note: Since "NICE" is a literal string rather than a wildcard pattern, I've used the -eq instead of the -like operator. If you doe need to find "NICE" as a substring, use something like -like "*NICE*" or, for case-sensitive matching, -clike "*NICE*", as Mathias R. Jessen suggests.
Note that you may alternatively use simplified syntax, which obviates the need for a script block and allows use of individual parameters (also note the absence of $_., which is implied):
Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties physicalDeliveryOfficeName |
Where-Object physicalDeliveryOfficeName -eq "NICE" # | ...
Taking a step back:
Santiago Squarzon suggests performing the filtering at the source, by using Get-ADUser's -Filter or -LDAPFilter parameter, which is much more efficient; e.g.:
Get-ADUser -Filter 'physicalDeliveryOfficeName -eq "NICE"'
As an aside: There are many examples out there that use script-block syntax with -Filter (-Filter { ... }), but the -Filter parameter accepts a string and that string, even though it supports PowerShell-like syntax, is interpreted by the AD provider, so it's better to pass a string to begin with - see this answer for more information.
[1] If you use (...), the expression's value gets bound to the -Property parameter instead, and is therefore interpreted as a property name whose value - assuming such a property even exists - is interpreted as a Boolean that determines whether the input object at hand should be filtered in or not. If the expression doesn't evaluate to the name of a property that exists on an input object, $false is implied, and the input object is filtered out. In your case, this predictably resulted in no objects being filtered in and therefore no output.
The Select-Object cmdlet is used to select only the columns you want from a larger object or list.
For instance:
C:\git\Core> gsv Spooler | fl
Name : Spooler
DisplayName : Print Spooler
Status : Running
DependentServices : {Fax}
ServicesDependedOn : {RPCSS, http}
CanPauseAndContinue : False
CanShutdown : False
CanStop : True
ServiceType : Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess
Get-Service returns Service Objects which have a lot of properties. If I only want certain ones, I'd use it like so:
C:\git\Core> gsv Spooler | Select Name,Status
Name : Spooler
Status : Running
You're using the cmdlet and probably discarding the columns which have the values you need. Run your one-liner again and remove the Select-Object cmdlet to see all of the columns availble, till you find the one that pertains to the Office.
I'm accessing my cloud Office 365 Exchange Server via Powershell. Showing all properties of an account can be done via Get-Mailbox 'username' | Select * (MS reference).
On most systems those properties are already sorted (e.g. Get-ADUser 'username' -Properties *). Is it possible to sort the Get-Mailbox output? I thought Get-Mailbox 'username' | Select * | Sort-Object would do the trick but it didn't make any difference (I guess a property doesn't constitute an object). What's the right command to sort the properties for a single user?
Note: Sorting properties of multiple accounts works fine e.g. Get-Mailbox -filter * | select Name, DisplayName | Sort-Object Displayname
Update:
I managed to get a sorted properties list using
(Get-Mailbox 'mailboxname' | select *).PSObject.properties | ForEach-Object {$_.Name} | Sort-Object Name
it gets me the following output:
AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom
AccountDisabled
AddressBookPolicy
ArchiveWarningQuota
...
$_.Name gives me the values but so far I couldn't combine both into one list, I'm trying to get s.th. like this:
AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom = {}
AccountDisabled = False
AddressBookPolicy =
ArchiveWarningQuota = 45 GB (48,318,382,080 bytes)
...
I'm not completely sure this is what you are after, let me know if I'm wrong. As in my comment, Sort-Object can handle sorting a list or an object[] by one or more of it's properties; but sorting one single object by it's properties, say alphabetically, would require a combination of accessing the object's properties with .PSObject.Properties.Name and then sorting this list with Sort-Object. And after that we can use Select-Object with this sorted list to display the object as we want.
Using the object below as an example as I have no idea how of the type Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.Management.Mailbox looks.
$mailbox = [pscustomobject]#{
DisplayName = 'someuser'
UserPrincipalName = 'someuser#somedomain.com'
Mail = 'someuser#somedomain.com'
IsLicensed = $true
}
$properties = $mailbox.PSObject.Properties.Name | Sort-Object
$mailbox | Select-Object $properties
As you can see, object's properties are now sorted alphabetically:
DisplayName IsLicensed Mail UserPrincipalName
----------- ---------- ---- -----------------
someuser True someuser#somedomain.com someuser#somedomain.com
By looking at your edit, seems like you are looking for a one-liner, so this is how it could look:
Get-Mailbox 'mailboxname' | ForEach-Object {
$_ | Select-Object ($_.PSObject.Properties.Name | Sort-Object)
}
I'm trying to retain the Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADAccount object when searching and specifying return outputs; however, when selecting the outputs, additional fields are populating. Questions:
Why is this is happening?
Is there a method, command, or filter to return only the specified parameters? (not the extra fields listed in the example below)
Is there a way to remove properties from the ADAccount Object? ($a in this example)
For the select method, is there a way to retain the original object formatting ? (I do not want a table and still need to reference the object later)
Running the following command:
$a = Get-ADUser $targetPerson -Properties Department, EmailAddress, Office, OfficePhone
returns:
Department : ****
DistinguishedName : CN=1111,OU=2222,OU=3333,OU=4444,DC=5555,DC=6666
EmailAddress : ****#mail.com
Enabled : ****
GivenName : ****
Name : ****
ObjectClass : user
ObjectGUID : ****
Office : ****
OfficePhone : ****
SamAccountName : ****
SID : ****
Surname : ****
UserPrincipalName : ****
Get-ADUser has a default set of properties it always returns, including for instance the distinguished name, the SID, and the account name. The parameter -Properties is for specifying which additional properties the cmdlet should return, because the default property set is just a small subset of all available properties.
To limit the output of Get-ADUser to a specific set of properties you need to pipe the output through Select-Object:
$props = 'Department', 'EmailAddress', 'Office', 'OfficePhone'
$a = Get-ADUser $targetPerson -Properties $props |
Select-Object $props
Of course that will turn the ADAccount object into a custom object (PSCustomObject), but I don't think there's a way around that.
The object Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADAccount inherits members from the class it is created from. Here are some of the inherited members -
Name, ObjectClass, ObjectGUID, SID, and SamAccountName.
More about AD Object
I don't think you can create a Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADAccount object with out those inherited members.
But if your project can accept a PSCustomObject then pipe $a to Select-object.
$a | Select-Object -Property Department, EmailAddress, Office, OfficePhone
I am creating my first application with VS and PowerShell and need to get the name of a service from my listview. The output of the selection looks like this:
ComputerName Status Name DisplayName
------------ ------ ---- -----------
PC Running Appinfo Application Information
What I want to do is get the value Appinfo from the Name column and assign it to a variable. I've had no luck with regex, but then again I am a beginner so I could be doing something wrong. Is there an easy way to do this?
The output you're currently getting is a formatted (tabular) view on selected properties of an object (namely the properties ComputerName, Status, Name, and DisplayName). You can get the value of a particular property by expanding it via the Select-Object cmdlet:
$name = ... | Select-Object -Expand Name
You could also store the object in a variable and access the property via dot-notation:
$obj = ...
$name = $obj.Name
Beware that if a cmdlet outputs multiple objects the variable will contain an array:
PS C:\> $services = Get-Service
PS C:\> $services.GetType().FullName
System.Object[]
PS C:\> $services.Count
136
You can access properties of a member object by index:
$services[42].Name
or by selecting a specific object via its properties:
$services | Where-Object { $_.DisplayName -eq 'Application Information' } |
Select-Object -Expand Name
Since PowerShell v3 you can also use the dot-property notation to get the value of a particular property of all array members:
$services.Name
Prior to PowerShell v3 this would have thrown an error, because the array object doesn't have a property Name.
In PowerShell, when I work with Active Directory specifically, often I'll compile an object containing a list of groups of people usually with $x = get-adgroup -filter {name -like "*"} | select-object name which gives me a list with a header or object type name:
name
----------
name1
name2
name3
How can I access the name header of the object or even change it to something else?
Can it be done similarly to the way I would access the string of the first entry like $x[0].name?
Further, is there a more generic way to access the string associated with an arbitrary entry?
I'm being asked to a lot of "programming" in PowerShell related to AD so any resources you can provide to help me would be greatly appreciated.
If you want to change the name you can create an expression for it in your select block:
get-adgroup -filter {name -like "*"} | select-object #{Name="WhatYouWannaCallIt";Expression={$_.Name}}
This would now give you:
WhatYouWannaCallIt
------------------
name1
name2
name3
The two things that I think you are asking for is a programmatic way to determine the name of a given property in an object.
(get-aduser $user | select name).psobject.properties
MemberType : NoteProperty
IsSettable : True
IsGettable : True
Value : Matt
TypeNameOfValue : System.String
Name : name
IsInstance : True
The Name property of .psobject.properties contains most of this information and I think you might be looking for.
Was going to answer the second part with what Arco444 just said about using select-object
Do you mean:
$x = get-adgroup -filter {name -like "*"}
$x.name
or
(get-adgroup -filter {name -like "*"}).name